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The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…
The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: revised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as love the truth, and desire to know the power of godliness. By H.H.The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: reuised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as loue the truth, and desire to know the power of godlinesse. By H.H.
London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for William Welby, 1612London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for VVilliam VVelby, 1612
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Well, if we see that security hath been the cause of our woe, let us labour to be careful, which is the cause of our good: if security hath been the cause we feared not, let us now be careful, that we may be afraid of our frailty, and trust in Gods word. Otherwise if we be quiet with our selves, and yield to presumption, God will suffer us to fall. This is the cause, why our sins break out often to Gods dishonour, and to the grief of our own consciences, because we do not more carefully to look our thoughts, and watch over our words.
Well, if we see that securitie hath bene the cause of our woe, let vs labour to be carefull, which is the cause of our good: if securitie hath bene the cause we feared not, let vs now be carefull, that we may be afraide of our frailtie, and trust in Gods word. Otherwise if we be quiet with our selues, and yeeld to presumption, God will suffer vs to fall. This is the cause, why our sinnes breake out often to Gods dishonour, and to the griefe of our owne consciences, because we doe not more carefully to looke our thoughts, and watch ouer our words.
It is added in this verse, that I may live. So he saith, Portion 10.4. Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live. We see here, that the children of God think they have no life, if they live not in Gods life. For, if we think we are alive, because we see, so do the brute beasts; if we think we are alive, because we hear, so do the cattle; if we think we are alive, because we eat and drink, or sleep, so do beasts; if we think we live, because we do reason and confer, so do the Heathen. The life of Gods children, is the death of sin; for where sin is alive, there that part is dead unto God. Art thou then given to malice, to swearing, to cursing, to breaking of the Sabbath, to adultery, to filthiness, to stealing, or slandering? surely then art thou dead, and if God should take away thy life from thee whilst thou art in this estate, thy soul should go sooner to hell, than thy body to the grave. We now see, that Gods children, finding themselves dull and slow to good things, when they cannot either rejoice in the promises of God, or find their inward man delighted with the law of God, think themselves to be dead.